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OF VOL. II
SAINTS OF THE CHURCH 1
A Friend in Rome--A Story of Two Ways of Loving--Agla? and Boniface--Become Christians--A New Life--Boniface Endures Terrible Tortures--Martyrdom--Death of Agla?--Church of St. Boniface--Alexis, the Pilgrim--His Travels--Return to Rome--A Ragged Beggar--His Death and Burial in St. Boniface's Church--St. Alexis' Monastery--Trials of the Church After Constantine--Rome's Lowest Ebb--Growth of the Spiritual City--Benedict the Blessed, and Scholastica.
FOUNDER OF MONASTICISM 15
Norcia in the Sabines--A Matrona--The Twins, Benedict and Scholastica--Benedict Goes to Rome--Conversion of Placidus--Benedict's Retirement to La Mentorella--Life in a Cave--Temptations--Visit of St. Francis--Benedict's Ministering--Real Founder of Monastic Life--Growth of His Order--Placidus and Maurus--St. Benedict's Personality and Conversions--His Ideal of the Religious Life--His Greatest Miracles--His Sister, Scholastica--The Last Day Together--His Ascension.
ST. GREGORY THE GREAT 37
Birth and Lineage of St. Gregory--Path from the World to the Cloister--Prayer, Study, and Charity--His Cat--A Prophecy--A Cardinal Deacon--Mission to Constantinople--Eutyches' Heresy--Rome in Pestilence--Gregory Elected Pope--His Unbelievable Accomplishments--His Life as Pope--Championship of the Oppressed--Bond with English-speaking People--The Great Procession During the Pestilence--Gregory's Successors.
MEMORIES OF THE PANTHEON 52
EARLY LIFE OF FATHER MASTAI 70
IN SABINA 131
Castel Gandolfo--Its Gardens--The Sabine Hills--The Reverendo--An Expedition into the Hills-The Campagna in the Early Morning--"Our Lady of Good Counsel"--Ancient Praeneste--Italy's Landscape--Struggles of the Colonna--Destruction of Palestrina--Boniface's Revenge and Expiation--Olevano, the Haunt of Artists--"Picturesque Utility"--The Wrong Train--Romance of a Pebble--The Work of the Saints.
PEOPLE OF THE HILLS 152
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